Patrick, I am so impressed by your article that I would like to order 500 reprints. How can I place the order, and what is my bill?
Another initiative: Would ASNT or the publisher of your article be willing to flood the Congress and the Executive Branch with reprints of your article at my expense up to $ 1 000, or perhaps to an even higher upper limit? Eugene Mechtly ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:15:20 -0600 (CST) >From: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [USMA:49061] Re: Numeracy and metrication >To: [email protected], "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >Excellent article, Patrick! I hope it is distributed to all members of >Congress, to the White House, and to all Departments, Agencies, and >Administrations of the Executive Branch (and to the US Postal Service after >the wording on a particular line is changed to "postal scales" or "weighing >scales" replacing "weight scales.") >Some might consider this a trivial distinction, but it is important for >serious students of elementary science and for inspectors applying ASNT >Standards. > >"Weighing" is a process of balancing forces (by any consistent unit of force), >but "weight" is a "quantity" having the SI unit "newton" by declaration of the >CGPM. > >Gene Mechtly. > >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:14:59 +0000 >>From: Patrick Moore <[email protected]> >>Subject: [USMA:49061] Re: Numeracy and metrication >>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >>Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >>... >>See attached my article on metric measurement....
